{"product_id":"azores-david-yezzi-9780804011136","title":"Azores","description":"\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2008\u003cbr\u003eIncluded in \u003ci\u003ePushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike a voyage to the Portuguese islands of the title, the poems in \u003ci\u003eAzores\u003c\/i\u003e arrive at their striking and hard-won destinations over the often-treacherous waters of experience--a man mourns the fact that he cannot not mourn, a father warns his daughter about harsh contingency, an unnamed visitor violently disrupts a quiet domestic scene. The ever-present and uncomfortable realities of envy, lust, and mortality haunt the book from poem to poem. Yezzi does not shy away from frank assessments of desire and human failing, the persistent difficulties of which are relieved periodically by a cautious optimism and even joy. Whether the poem's backdrop is volcanic islands in the Mid-Atlantic or Manhattan Island at sunset, Yezzi examines the forces of change in the natural world, as w hether mundane or startlingly intimate. By turns plainspoken, caustic, evocative, and wry, these poems are, in matters of form, well-wrought and musical and, in matters of the heart, clear-eyed and always richly human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Yezzi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804011133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804011136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Swallow Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 56\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 6.03w x 0.17d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2008 pg. 18","brand":"David Yezzi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45896481112319,"sku":"9780804011136","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6fbeaccb-c905-4436-9a91-e9f55e5be004.jpg?v=1721371514","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/azores-david-yezzi-9780804011136","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}